Bible Strands
Isaiah 57:7
On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet addresses covenant-breaking Israel during a period of active idolatry, describing their deliberate shift of worship locations.
The words — The phrase עַל הַר־גָּבֹהַ וְנִשָּׂא (al har-gavoh ve-nissa) literally means "on a high and lifted-up mountain," while מִשְׁכָּבְךָ (mishkavkha) translates directly to "your bed."
The thread — The text describes elevating worship sites on high hills, a pattern repeated in Ezekiel 16:16 and Ezekiel 23:41 where foreign altars and luxurious couches replace faithful devotion.
Why it lands — The passage requires the reader to acknowledge that relocating worship to self-chosen places functions as a direct rejection of divine authority.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 16:16 You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!
- Ezekiel 23:41 You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,
- Jeremiah 2:20 “For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
- Jeremiah 3:6 Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
- Ezekiel 16:25 At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.
- Ezekiel 20:28 When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings.
- Jeremiah 3:2 “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
- Ezekiel 23:17 Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.